STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME – SPANISH PROGRAM

Students completing a Spanish language course or series of courses will carry away with them a broadened worldview in terms of both language and culture. They will have had a glimpse of the cultures of Latin America and Spain, and will have challenged their thinking with new ways of hearing, seeing and expressing the world around them.

Mission Statement

My mission as Instructor of Spanish at Columbia College is to instill in my students a sense of the value of and an appreciation for the Spanish language, not only for its ever-increasing utility in the California workplace and society in general, but for the personal enrichment it offers the traveler, the reader, the student of music, culture, geography - life!

That students leave my class with a will - even an eagerness- to try their burgeoning Spanish at the very first opportunity that presents itself - whether on the job, in a university transfer Spanish course, at the Mexican restaurant down the street, or along the streets of Puerto Vallarta - will mean to me success.

Inherent in language is culture;  that stereotypes and prejudices dissolve and the richness of the Spanish and Latin American cultures in their breadth and depth be perceived and appreciated are interwoven measures of success.

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